Advanced Patient Care Lab - EMS 204 at Patrick & Henry Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/phcc/courses/EMS204-AdvancedPatientCareLab
Effective: 2021-08-01
Course Description
Focuses on the comprehensive assessment and management of out-of-hospital and inter-facility patients using scenario-based learning.
Laboratory 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
2 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to develop and assess the student's knowledge, understanding, analysis and application of comprehensive patient care in a practical setting.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Corequisite: EMS 203
Course Objectives
- Provide care of a pediatric patient complaining of respiratory distress/failure in a scenario.
- Provide care of an adult patient with cardiac dysrhythmia/cardiac arrest in a scenario.
- Provide care of a geriatric patient presenting with signs and symptoms of a stroke in a scenario.
- Provide care of a patient with an obstetric or gynecologic complaint in a scenario.
- Provider care of a neonatal patient requiring resuscitation during delivery in a scenario.
- Provide care of a pediatric patient with a traumatic injury in a scenario.
- Provide care of an adult patient with a traumatic injury in a scenario.
- Provide care of a geriatric patient with signs and symptoms of sepsis in a scenario.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform surgical cricothyrotomy.
- Demonstrate competency in the management of a patient on a ventilator.
- Demonstrate competency in the use of ultrasound.
- Apply the concepts of lab value evaluation to patient assessment.
- Interact with patients with special challenges or cultural differences.
- Provide care for a minimum of two (2) patients complaining of any of the following complaints: Chest pain; Overdose; Abdominal pain; Allergic reaction/anaphylaxis; Hypoglycemia/DKA/HHNS; Psychiatric; Seizure; Shock.
Major Topics to be Included
- Comprehensive Patient Assessment
- Medical patient
- Trauma patient
- Patient in special populations
- Lab values
- Comprehensive Patient Care
- Pharmacological interventions
- Integrating advanced procedures
- Clinical reasoning
- Therapeutic communication
- Cultural considerations
- Special challenges
- Advanced Procedures
- Surgical airway
- Ventilator management
- Ultrasound